AVS SYSTEMS, INC

www.avssystems.org

IBM Premier Business Partner and InfoSphere Information Server Specialist

Maximize your investments in IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Most Organizations, based on their business need and vision, has invested millions of dollars on IBM InfoSphere Information Server tool comprising of DataStage, QualityStage, Information Analyzer, Business Glossary, Metadata Workbench, FastTrack, Change Data Capture (CDC), Information Services Director (ISD), and Master Data Management (MDM). On top, these Organizations have entrusted the services of implementation to their existing vendor community to seek out qualified resources that are experienced in these tool sets and spent 5 to 10 times more on getting some of their initiatives completed or in progress. Typical implementation initiatives are Data Warehousing, Data Marts, Business Intelligence reporting and analytics, Data Quality Rigor, Data Profiling for column, primary-key-foreign key, table, cross-table, domain, crossdomain, baseline and comparative analysis with the baseline, maintaining Enterprise Business Glossary or simply end-to-end Metadata Management and Master Data Management. With such selection of resources from various vendor agencies where every resource works independently, InfoSphere Information Server best practices, standards, guidelines, sound data integration & ETL strategy, development methodology, performance & tuning traits, knowledge of center of excellence is lost giving way to poor design, development and practices that results in inconsistencies, severe burn out ratio for the Organization or end up with poor quality product being rolled out into Production which creates lot of headaches to the Incumbent Organization management.

This is where we come in

Information as a Service
IB M CE R TI F I E D V A R F O R INF O S P HE R E
Rely on our vast dedicated technical expertise of over 14 years in InfoSphere to closely guide and advise you on how to leverage InfoSphere Information Server as a platform for Data Integration and using Information as a Service as an asset for your organization. We bring in our innovative Center of Excellence (COE) best practice.

C Ce en nt te er ro of fE Ex xc ce el ll le en nc ce e D Da at ta a IIn nt te eg gr ra at tiio on n( (C CE ED DII) ) W Wh he en nt to oe en ng ga ag ge eu us s Benefit from our extensive skills, deep industry experience and knowledge
AVS Center of Excellence (COE) provides best-in-time concepts and best practices to overcome the challenges your business faces and help your team with innovative approaches to AGILE development. Finally, we offer advisement on product mentoring, development and exposing InfoSphere Information Server in batch or real-time as always-on Web Services to grow your business. Our COE Service, stemming from over 2 decades of experience with leading fortune-500 cross-industry firms, is highly innovative, unmatched that provides immense tangible and intangible benefits that not only drives your business in the right direction but creates incredible return on investment (ROI). Our InfoSphere Center of Excellence (COE) practice includes: High-performance - Architecture and topology strategy Best practices - end-to-end relating to topology, InfoSphere installation, administration, configuration, development, nodes, memory, capacity planning, file systems, scripting, automation, migration, and scheduling including Clustering and Grid solutions ETL strategy and development - consistent innovative design vetted against our best practice, parallel processing, high-performance, loading/update strategy and error handling. Conversions /Migrations - from previous versions to the latest Agile Methodology innovative iterative and incremental development approaches designed to cope and adapt to new ideas from the outset, allows changes to be made easily and faster but adhering to the principles and techniques of COE, thereby reducing overhead, products and code tested successfully and rolled out, on time and under budget. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution having over 20 years of experience in diversified platforms and environments, we are highly skilled in tracking, monitoring, solving complex issues . Most of these get automatically resolved when we put our COE in use. Work exclusively with IBM Technical Support To resolve PMRs on time does freeing Clients resources to work on more important tasks.

AVS

The Expertise you seek is augmented by dedicated professionals who specialize in specific InfoSphere discipline and certified by IBM thus ensuring complete satisfaction that the technology service is delivered to you professionally by people who understands the technology and your business. Our past experience with Fortune-500 companies and innovative best practices combined with our Center of Excellence (COE) guidelines guarantees you of foolproof, high quality, high performance deliverables.

Gain visibility and trust in your information Data about Data

Understand your end-to-end information infrastructure Proactively manage and administer your information infrastructure - Web-based exploration of metadata relationships InfoSphere, modeling and BI applications - Explore and analyze both graphically and textually - Perform searches and customized queries Assess and mitigate change management risk - Assess dependencies across InfoSphere and 3rd party tools Support compliance and governance initiatives (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II) - Trace data lineage of modeling, BI reports and InfoSphere objects

Metadata management yields the following reports: Business Lineage Data Lineage Impact Analysis Operational Metadata

Explore Metadata
Information assets in the repository of InfoSphere Information Server (IIS)

InfoSphere Metadata Workbench helps support information governance by providing reporting and traceability on InfoSphere data movement, modeling and business intelligence applications, as required by regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Basel II. During the design phase of an information agenda, IT personnel can analyze and view the impact of changes to the current information model, avoiding potentially disruptive modifications to existing processes. InfoSphere Metadata Workbench relates design and operational and business metadata to drive better understanding and higher trust between IT and LOB employees.

Analyze
Dependencies and relationships of key assets and business intelligence reports

Manage
Metadata to obtain in-depth analysis reports Typical Metadata Sources INTERNAL to the InfoSphere Information Server:
DataStage ETL Jobs QualityStage Data Quality Jobs Information Analyzer Data Profiling results Business Glossary Terms and Definitions Master Data Management

And lastly, reporting on the end-to-end design is critical to the auditing process and understanding why and how decisions were made. Storing this information centrally is key to historical analysis.

AVS Systems Metadata Management Strategy facilitates answers to the following questions (shown with typical outputs/deliverables): What data elements are available / needed? Inventory of data assets Why are these data needed? Business rationale, business processes supported/enabled How do the data-related processes work? Manufacture, manipulation, organization, storage and dissemination of data Execution of scripts, programs as required by Administrator as well as developers. Who is responsible for each of these data elements? Ownership, stewardship When do the data-related processes take place? Calendar-driven (scheduled), event-driven, user-driven (ad hoc) Where are the data-related processes executed? Internal/external organizations, applications/systems within which data is contained

Typical Metadata Sources EXTERNAL to the InfoSphere Information Server:

Informatica/Other ETL jobs Data Modeling from Erwin, ER/Studio, etc. Business Intelligence metadata from Cognos, Business Objects, Microstrategy, etc. RDBMS Structures from Oracle, DB2, etc Various other sources via bridges and connectors

Data Quality critical for Business Confidence

The quality of data within the enterprise is measured according to its reliability and validity; the completeness and accuracy of a data set. It is usually measured by comparing the data set to another data set identified as the "gold standard", and assessing the level of agreement, thus creating a Master Record.
But, data being data, you are faced with the following challenges:

WHEN TO ENGAGE US & OUR EXPERIENCE

Every Short-term, long-term, just-intime Services Business Assessment & IT Strategy, Roadmap Services Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Master Data Management Experience -20+ years of solid CrossIndustry Experience (Commercial and Federal) Expertise - Data Integration and Business Intelligence Specialists Past Performance - Managed huge initiatives for Fortune-500 Companies Background - Extensive experience in Data and Project Management that involves IBM InfoSphere products for over 14 years ensures that the projects will be done right and on time with outmost dedication and professionalism Services IT Assessment , Strategy and Roadmap, Data Warehouse, Enterprise Architecture, Data Integration, Data Migration, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence, Legacy Reengineering and Consolidation, Application and Web Solutions, Data Management, Risk Management and Project Management IBM Premier Business Partner (since 2000) We specialize in InfoSphere Information Server brand and have over 14 years of extensive experience in IBM product tools such as DataStage, QualityStage, Information Analyzer, Business Glossary, Metadata Workbench, CDC, Information Services Director, IBM MDM. Business Needs We ask the right questions, anticipate challenges, share ideas and work for a better outcome High Quality of Deliverables stemming from our standards and best practices. We are very passionate about our projects and take incredible pride in our deliverables. Cost Effective coming from our years of practice and sound methodology allows us to provide rapid application agile development.

Business Drivers
Data is highly fragmented, NOT insightful, reliable, complete, consistent and accurate. Intensifying regulatory requirements Multiple Versions of the same reference data exists for different reporting environment? Lack of Information Standards (Redundancy nightmare, Structural differences prevalent across disparate sources) Data load process overwrites the results of others Cumbersome manual process to consolidate data

Trusted Information Enables Innovation!

Professional Development

ARE YOU FACI NG ISSUE S WITH YOUR MDM/ETL PROGRAM S DEVELOPED W ITH I BM INFOSPHERE? PROTECT YOUR INVESTM ENT. WE CAN HELP. Todays economy and business trends demand quick action and cohesive handshake among all business processes so that companies can understand the real benefits that are hidden underneath the guise of inaccurate and unreliable data spread across disparate systems and also due to business initiatives taking place such as citizens or corporate name changes, mergers and acquisitions, parent-subsidiary relationships, divestiture, splits, etc. Businesses are faced with the immediate need to consolidate their data and integrate them so that immense value can be realized. Companies need to be able to work together in a unified environment so that Master Data Management/Customer Data Integration can take place.

Adv ice a n d P la n n ing Dev e lo p B e st Pra cti ce s E T L A rc hit ect ure & Da ta S tra teg y E xtra ctio n a nd Lo a d Stra t eg y In sta ll, Co nfig ur e, Ad mi n ist ra t io n In no v a t iv e De sig n/ Re u sa b le Fu nct io n s Perfo r ma nce & T u ni ng Fa ste r E xec ut io n B a tch /Rea l - Ti me In teg ra t io n Auto ma t io n a n d Sc he du li ng Po st - P ro d uc tio n Su p po rt M ento ri ng a n d T ra i ni n g

We come and assess your infrastructure, list inventory of pain points and issues, perform analysis and recommend solutions

BUSINESS DRIVERS

AVS SYSTEMS, INC Issues with on-boarding clients? Citizen/Customer Identification a costly redundant process? IBM INFOSPHERE INFORMATION SERVER No Trusted Source of Information. Facing difficulty in consolidating and integrating your data? 9 Colt Circle Multiple versions of the same reference data for different West Windsor, NJ 08550 reporting environment? Ph: (609) 649-4174 Data load process overwrites the results of others? Fax: (609) 228-1079 Spend more time gathering data manually? Significant amount of point-to-point integration? Email: info@avssystems.org Data quality issues are plenty? Website: http://www,avssystems.org Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence platform not yielding the right results or you dont have one? No Data Governance in place? No Master Data Integration Strategy in place?